majority rule quotes

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.